By Staff Reporter, *Shah Inayat Qadri’s urs starts* - Pakistan Daily Times - Lahore, Pakistan; Saturday, May 19, 2012
Shah Inayat Qadri’s Urs starts
Lahore: The three-day annual Urs of Hazrat Hafiz Muhammad Inayatllah Shah Qadri Shatari, teacher of renowned Sufi saint Bulleh Shah and popularly known as Shah Inayat Qadri, began at Queens’ Road on Friday.
Provincial Minister for Auqaf and Religious Affairs Haji Ehsanuddin Qureshi inaugurated the urs celebrations by laying a traditional chadar on the shrine.
Officers of the Auqaf Department and a large number of devotees were also present on the occasion. They also offered special prayers for the development, progress and stability of country.
The Punjab Auqaf Department had allocated Rs 66,000 for expenditures of urs and provision of Langar (free meal) for visitors and devotees. Later, a special Mehfil-e-Samaa (spiritual singing ceremony) was held at the shrine in which prominent qawwal and other folk singers participated.
Shah Inayat, generally known as Shah Inayat Qadri, was born in Kasur around three hundred years ago in an Arain family. He studied Persian and Arabic as per the tradition of local education system of the time. He was a student of a famous Sufi scholar and saint, Muhammad Ali Raza Shattari.
After he finished his studies, he was nominated a Khalifa of his teacher Hazarat Shattari. Later on he received the khilafat of seven other sub-sects of Sufi Qadri order. Soon after, he migrated to Lahore where he started his own school of Sufism. Baba Bulleh Shah was one of his prominent students.
In wake of terrorist activities and poor law and order situation across the country, local police had taken strict security measures to avoid any unpleasant incident during the urs celebrations and gathering of devotees.
The celebrations would continue for the next two days.
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Shah Inayat Qadri’s Urs starts
Lahore: The three-day annual Urs of Hazrat Hafiz Muhammad Inayatllah Shah Qadri Shatari, teacher of renowned Sufi saint Bulleh Shah and popularly known as Shah Inayat Qadri, began at Queens’ Road on Friday.
Provincial Minister for Auqaf and Religious Affairs Haji Ehsanuddin Qureshi inaugurated the urs celebrations by laying a traditional chadar on the shrine.
Officers of the Auqaf Department and a large number of devotees were also present on the occasion. They also offered special prayers for the development, progress and stability of country.
The Punjab Auqaf Department had allocated Rs 66,000 for expenditures of urs and provision of Langar (free meal) for visitors and devotees. Later, a special Mehfil-e-Samaa (spiritual singing ceremony) was held at the shrine in which prominent qawwal and other folk singers participated.
Shah Inayat, generally known as Shah Inayat Qadri, was born in Kasur around three hundred years ago in an Arain family. He studied Persian and Arabic as per the tradition of local education system of the time. He was a student of a famous Sufi scholar and saint, Muhammad Ali Raza Shattari.
After he finished his studies, he was nominated a Khalifa of his teacher Hazarat Shattari. Later on he received the khilafat of seven other sub-sects of Sufi Qadri order. Soon after, he migrated to Lahore where he started his own school of Sufism. Baba Bulleh Shah was one of his prominent students.
In wake of terrorist activities and poor law and order situation across the country, local police had taken strict security measures to avoid any unpleasant incident during the urs celebrations and gathering of devotees.
The celebrations would continue for the next two days.
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By Staff Reporter, *Shah Inayat Qadri’s urs starts* - Pakistan Daily Times - Lahore, Pakistan; Saturday, May 19, 2012Shah Inayat Qadri’s Urs starts
Lahore: The three-day annual Urs of Hazrat Hafiz Muhammad Inayatllah Shah Qadri Shatari, teacher of renowned Sufi saint Bulleh Shah and popularly known as Shah Inayat Qadri, began at Queens’ Road on Friday.
Provincial Minister for Auqaf and Religious Affairs Haji Ehsanuddin Qureshi inaugurated the urs celebrations by laying a traditional chadar on the shrine.
Officers of the Auqaf Department and a large number of devotees were also present on the occasion. They also offered special prayers for the development, progress and stability of country.
The Punjab Auqaf Department had allocated Rs 66,000 for expenditures of urs and provision of Langar (free meal) for visitors and devotees. Later, a special Mehfil-e-Samaa (spiritual singing ceremony) was held at the shrine in which prominent qawwal and other folk singers participated.
Shah Inayat, generally known as Shah Inayat Qadri, was born in Kasur around three hundred years ago in an Arain family. He studied Persian and Arabic as per the tradition of local education system of the time. He was a student of a famous Sufi scholar and saint, Muhammad Ali Raza Shattari.
After he finished his studies, he was nominated a Khalifa of his teacher Hazarat Shattari. Later on he received the khilafat of seven other sub-sects of Sufi Qadri order. Soon after, he migrated to Lahore where he started his own school of Sufism. Baba Bulleh Shah was one of his prominent students.
In wake of terrorist activities and poor law and order situation across the country, local police had taken strict security measures to avoid any unpleasant incident during the urs celebrations and gathering of devotees.
The celebrations would continue for the next two days.
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